Create Informatica Mappings From/To a JDBC Data Source for ActiveTrail

Informatica provides a powerful, elegant means of transporting and transforming your data. By utilizing the CData JDBC Driver for ActiveTrail, you are gaining access to a driver based on industry-proven standards that integrates seamlessly with Informatica's powerful data transportation and manipulation features. This tutorial shows how to transfer and browse ActiveTrail data in Informatica PowerCenter.

Deploy the Driver

To deploy the driver to the Informatica PowerCenter server, copy the CData JAR and .lic file, located in the lib subfolder in the installation directory, to the following folder: Informatica-installation-directory\services\shared\jars\thirdparty.

To work with ActiveTrail data in the Developer tool, you will need to copy the CData JAR and .lic file, located in the lib subfolder in the installation directory, into the following folders:

• Informatica-installation-directory\client\externaljdbcjars
• Informatica-installation-directory\externaljdbcjars

Create the JDBC Connection

Follow the steps below to connect from Informatica Developer:

1. In the Connection Explorer pane, right-click your domain and click Create a Connection.
2. In the New Database Connection wizard that is displayed, enter a name and Id for the connection and in the Type menu select JDBC.
3. In the JDBC Driver Class Name property, enter:

   cdata.jdbc.api.APIDriver

4. In the Connection String property, enter the JDBC URL, using the connection properties for ActiveTrail.

   Start by setting the Profile connection property to the location of the ActiveTrail Profile on disk (e.g. C:\profiles\ActiveTrail.apip). Next, set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for ActiveTrail (see below).

   ActiveTrail API Profile Settings

   ActiveTrail uses API key authentication. To obtain an API key:

   1. Log in to your ActiveTrail account at https://app.activetrail.com
   2. Navigate to your account settings and locate the API integration section
   3. Generate or copy your existing API key

   After obtaining your API key, set the following connection properties:

   • AuthScheme: Set this to APIKey.
   • APIKey: Set this to your ActiveTrail API key.

   Built-in Connection String Designer

   For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the ActiveTrail JDBC Driver. Either double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command-line.

   
   java -jar cdata.jdbc.api.jar
   

   Fill in the connection properties and copy the connection string to the clipboard.

   

   A typical connection string is below:

   jdbc:api:Profile=C:\profiles\ActiveTrail.apip;AuthScheme=APIKey;APIKey=your_api_key;

Browse ActiveTrail Tables

After you have added the driver JAR to the classpath and created a JDBC connection, you can now access ActiveTrail entities in Informatica. Follow the steps below to connect to ActiveTrail and browse ActiveTrail tables:

1. Connect to your repository.
2. In the Connection Explorer, right-click the connection and click Connect.
3. Clear the Show Default Schema Only option.

You can now browse ActiveTrail tables in the Data Viewer: Right-click the node for the table and then click Open. On the Data Viewer view, click Run.

Create ActiveTrail Data Objects

Follow the steps below to add ActiveTrail tables to your project:

1. Select tables in ActiveTrail, then right-click a table in ActiveTrail, and click Add to Project.
2. In the resulting dialog, select the option to create a data object for each resource.
3. In the Select Location dialog, select your project.

   Create a Mapping

   Follow the steps below to add the ActiveTrail source to a mapping:

   1. In the Object Explorer, right-click your project and then click New -> Mapping.
   2. Expand the node for the ActiveTrail connection and then drag the data object for the table onto the editor.
   3. In the dialog that appears, select the Read option.
   

   Follow the steps below to map ActiveTrail columns to a flat file:

   1. In the Object Explorer, right-click your project and then click New -> Data Object.
   2. Select Flat File Data Object -> Create as Empty -> Fixed Width.
   3. In the properties for the ActiveTrail object, select the rows you want, right-click, and then click copy. Paste the rows into the flat file properties.
   4. Drag the flat file data object onto the mapping. In the dialog that appears, select the Write option.
   5. Click and drag to connect columns.

   To transfer ActiveTrail data, right-click in the workspace and then click Run Mapping.